Acting · Paris, France · Born August 17, 1946
Didier Maffre, known professionally as Didier Sandre, is a French actor and stage director born in Paris on 17 August 1946 and appointed sociétaire of the Comédie‑Française in 2020. He made his debut in 1968 in Paul Claudel’s L’Échange and, from the 1970s onward, became a prominent figure in public theatre, collaborating with major directors such as Catherine Dasté, Bernard Sobel, Jorge Lavelli, Patrice Chéreau, Giorgio Strehler, Luc Bondy, and Antoine Vitez. Alongside this, he has appeared regularly in private‑theatre productions, including works by Claudel, Anouilh, Rampal, and Margulies. His stage career includes notable performances in Bérénice (directed by Lambert Wilson), Le Laboureur de Bohême (Christian Schiaretti), and Monsieur chasse! by Feydeau. He joined the Comédie‑Française in 2013 and became a full member in 2020. Sandre has also worked extensively in film and television, appearing in Pascale Ferran’s Petits Arrangements avec les morts, Éric Rohmer’s Autumn Tale, Abraham Segal’s Le Mystère Paul, and Mikhaël Hers’s Memory Lane. On television, he has acted in numerous dramas, including Saint‑Germain ou la Négociation, Le Sang noir, and notably portrayed Louis XIV in Nina Companeez’s L’Allée du Roi and the Baron de Charlus in her adaptation of In Search of Lost Time. A frequent narrator in concert settings, he has performed in major repertoire works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Beethoven, Honegger, Haydn, Prokofiev, Grieg, Poulenc, and others, collaborating with leading orchestras, conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Myung‑Whun Chung, and renowned soloists including Alexandre Tharaud, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, and Emmanuelle Bertrand.
MovieLe Cid
2026
as Don Diègue
MovieLe Soulier de Satin
2025
as Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
TVIcon of French Cinema
2023
as Frédéric
MovieThe Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
2022
as Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
MovieThe Passengers of the Night
2022
as Jean
MovieFrançois Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFrank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
2020
as Narrator
MovieAn Officer and a Spy
2019
as General Boisdeffre
MovieÉlectre / Oreste
2019
as Tyndare
MovieRoméo et Juliette
2018
as Capulet
MovieAn Impossible Love
2018
as Philippe's Father
MovieLe Petit-Maître Corrigé
2018
as Le Comte, père d'Hortense
MovieLes Fourberies de Scapin
2017
as Géronte
MovieCyrano de Bergerac
2017
as de Guiche
MovieLes Damnés
2016
as Joachim von Essenbeck
MovieLes années perdues
2015
as Daniel Launey
MovieThe Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne
2015
as Narrator (voice)
MovieNot My Type
2014
as Le père de Clément
MovieUnder the Rainbow
2013
as Guillaume Casseul
MovieA.L.F.
2012
as Le psychiatre
MoviePhoto
2012
as Uriel
MovieOne Night
2012
as Le procureur Lacourt
TVÀ la recherche du temps perdu
2011
as Le Baron de Charlus
MovieMemory Lane
2010
as François
MovieSous un autre jour
2009
as Martin
MovieMontparnasse
2009
as Serge
MovieMoi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906
2007
as Ricq
MovieHell
2006
as Le père de Hell
MovieLovers of the Café Flore
2006
as Georges de Beauvoir
MovieSaint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as M. de Méylines
MovieThe Legend of Princess Parva
2003
as Parva's father (voice)
MovieL'enfant éternel
2002
as Richard
MovieOrigins of Life
2001
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePassion interdite
1998
as Richard
MovieA Tale of Autumn
1998
as Étienne
MovieLa femme d'un seul homme
1998
as Richard
MovieL'allée du Roi (Version courte)
1996
as Louis XIV
TVL'Allée du roi
1996
as Louis XIV
MovieComing to Terms with the Dead
1994
as Vincent
MovieMensonge
1993
as Charles Melville
MovieBoulevard des hirondelles
1993
as Pascal Capeau
Turbulences
1992
as Julien
MovieManon Roland
1989
as Robespierre
TVLes Grandes Familles
1989
as Gabriel De Voos
MovieLe Soulier de Satin
1987
as Don Rodrigue
MovieThe Woman of My Life
1986
as Xavier
MovieHell Train
1985
as Dalbret
MovieShadow Dance
1983
as Gérard
MovieRichelieu ou La journée des dupes
1983
as Cardinal de Richelieu
MoviePeer Gynt
1981
as Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre
